AndrewFeb 15, 2025
I just realized that I’ve never seen any of the #Halloween movies, and since I’m Octobering-it-up for the foreseeable future, I decided to make up for it. There are a lot of them, so (for now?) I’m going with the Blumhouse continuity: OG → 2018 → Kills → Ends. Prepared the files to watch on my phone before bed and watched the #Halloween1978 yesterday. Not sure how I feel about it yet, it’s either simple, lean, if you will, which is good, or primitive and a bit silly, which is… less good.
Show threadAndrewFeb 16, 2025
So, #Halloween2018. I guess this is hard to know since I’m not familiar with the franchise and sub-genre, are there any nods and winks I’m missing? Other than that, #slashers seem to be pretty straightforward. Thrills and not much else. Not a negative, not by any stretch, just at this point I don’t see a lot of reasons to go beyond what I planned.
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By the way, I hate it when people do that, so let me be clear: there is an obvious question about the mental health portrayal. I don’t know what I think about it yet. I’m not sure these two movies know what they think about it either. Which may actually be *the* problem. But, yeah, the question is there, and I’m not ignoring it.
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Another by the way, is that all the analysis I’m reading makes me laugh, more than anything. Don’t get me wrong, if you look at horror/slashers as a whole, there’s a lot to go on and a lot of what I find interesting to think about. But if it’s just about how the first movie [blah-blah-blah]… what a bunch of nonsense! 😀 Everything can be easily dismissed, as there is not much to go on, or even disprove from the text of the movie itself.
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Why is #BillGates fighting #WilliamShatner?

#HalloweenKills

Mar 25, 2025 at 11:06amWeb
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I think I have changed my opinion on this tetralogy at least 5 times. Every time I saw some kind of vector, it did something to throw it off. Which is on me, sure, why have an opinion before you finish the whole thing.

If it wasn’t clear from my earlier joke about “Kills”, I didn’t like it.

Also, I can’t help but notice how all these movies keep shoving male heroes in. Why?! You already have great heroins! You have Jamie Lee Curtis, for crying out loud!

But I liked #HalloweenEnds in the end.